Linda Hunt Quotes
For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
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Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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I wasn't a great athlete.
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Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
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I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
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I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.
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The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
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I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
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We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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I'm never satisfied.
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I remember the first day of school my first year in the classroom. My stomach churned with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Could I do the job? Could I connect with the kids? Will there be the chemistry to build relationships and get the job done, or will I totally flop?
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I was attracted to the comics because of the characters and, particularly, Wolverine because he is so complex. He is so damaged and tragic in many ways - he doesn't have his memory. His body was invaded. He has unrequited love for Jean Grey.
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I lived in Burma for a couple of summers in the '90s, working with the democratic resistance that had fled to the jungles.
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.
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People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.
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For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
